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Can anyone help please? Someone out there must know where I am going wrong.

I have tried everything, and almost worn the manual out! After creating a Dvd-video, or dubbing selected items- when I go to finalise the disc and 'menu create', I can't choose anything other than the colour/character selection that is presented for title/chapter menu.

You are supposed to be able to select colour options on menus - 'at step 10', by pressing the *button again, a colour setting display appears - it doesn't!

If you press * it shows a preview of how the menu looks, pressing it again takes you back to the menu selection. I have tried pressing other buttons, and quick menu to try and get the other menu up, but nothing happens.

It does state in the manual that while displaying a preview screen of your captured image, you can access the other menu to correct colour etc. Your supposed to be able to change the character colour also, to improve legibility of them on menus, and change 'background colour'.

Am I missing something? I have gone through it step by step from the manual, but unable to select colour options etc. I have run out of ideas, and have gone over and over it all, and I just can't get it!

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The option to make these changes is only available if you are using your own saved screen image for the menu. The pre-defined menus cannot be altered. At least that is the way that it works on my XS34.

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I'm not sure what you mean - could you explain please on how I do this?

Is it when you do 'capture image' as a menu? The thing is I did do a capture image, but I can't figure out (yet) how I can get that in the menu - it doesn't come up in the option.

Sorry, I am finding the manual a bit confusing/hard work at times - it looks pretty simple and gives step by step instructions, but then you have to refer to different pages in other parts of the manual to get through one section!

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Yes, this confused me at first. Because there are exactly eight pre-defined menus, any image that you save will be on page two of the menu screens. I assume from what you say that you have saved an image but can't find it.

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Thanks again Alan - I feel a little stupid that I hadn't looked further than page two of the menu screen!

I wonder if I could ask for your expertise further on this menu display subject: It says in the manual that you can hide 'chapter number' and the date/time, from the content menu.

I have tried following the instructions from the manual, by highlighting the title in the content menu - quick menu - title/chapter display - then managed to highlight the date, but I cannot delete it. It only allows me to change the date - what am I doing wrong?

I also can't find a way of getting rid of the chapter number - as I have named the chapters within the title, I was hoping perhaps I could hide the chapter number displayed up in the corner.

I'm sure I will feel even more stupid when I find out how simple it is to do!!

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I don't have a disc that needs finalising at the moment, so I can't check this. But I would have thought this would work:

Select the content menu
Select the quick menu (*)
Select title info (option 1)
Select quick menu (again)
Select title edit title or chapter name
To clear everything move down to clear all
Enter the new information

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Thanks for that Alan, and yes, I can hide the title and date, but am unable to hide the time (duration) - I was hoping just to have the chapter name, and not show duration in the bottom right corner.

The same thing as chapter number - can't seem to hide that! I would prefer on some recordings not to have the chapter number or the duration time - just the titles. I wonder if anyone knows if it is possible - as it does state in manual that you can, and as much as I follow the instructions in the manual, I can't do it!

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If you dont want chapters on the menu at all, when creating the DVD, there is a DVD Video Creation Options Menu. In this, for Menu create, you can select Title+Chapter, Title, Chapter, or None. It defaults to Title+Chapter, just change this to Title.